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Hessdalen automatic measurement station recordings
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Illustrations, recordings and archival references — each with its own provenance. A documented source is a starting point for investigation, not a verdict on its explanation.
Project Hessdalen: photographs and films
Source photographs, films and instrument context. A luminous observation does not by itself identify plasma or a conscious being.
Project Hessdalen ↗Link only — rights with the publisherOriginal automatic-station film index
Original films and observing notes. Publicly readable; blanket reproduction permission was not established. Linked, not reproduced here.
Project Hessdalen ↗Link only — rights with the publisherHessdalen valley in winter (archival)
Hessdalen in 1953: a farmer hauling moss by horse through the snow, from the Norwegian National Archives' Billedbladet NÅ collection — the remote mountain hamlet whose sky the automatic measurement station now watches. Archival location photograph · context; the station's own frames are linked from hessdalen.org.
Unknown authorUnknown author · 1953 ↗CC BY-SA 4.0Licence terms ↗American Alchemy · 0:26:28
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAutomated cameras in the Hessdalen valley, Norway have recorded unexplained lights since 1998, following a wave of reports in 1981–1984. Researchers publish images and spectra and propose plasma and geochemical models. The corpus mentions Hessdalen as a place with magnetic anomalies, in a conversation about geomagnetic themes in UFO reports.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Project Hessdalen automatic camera station (Østfold University College, Erling Strand) and visiting researchers academic |
| Released | ongoing — Project Hessdalen (hessdalen.org) publishes station images; scientific papers from 2011 onward |
| Official status | No government body has issued a finding; Norwegian and Italian academic teams describe the recurring lights as a genuine but unexplained atmospheric luminous phenomenon. |
| Kind | video |
| Where | 62.790, 11.190 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
“There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg 15 November 2025
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Hessdalen automatic measurement station recordings, Hessdalen Valley. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:26:28 “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg ▶
Hessdalen, you have, you know, magnetic anomalies as well. Um so, that that is a common theme in UFOs. Yeah. I remember
- Project Hessdalen
- Hessdalen lights